Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self (Volume III)
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This book investigates some of the biggest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. Research conducted in Asia and the West highlights the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenous peoples, women, migrants, and the young, as well as the dampening effects some government responses to Covid-19 have had on artistic freedoms and citizen participation. Digitisation is shown to be a double-edged sword, with ill effects on citizenship being countered by positive ones from grass-roots activities. The biggest challenge facing the world today is climate change. Issues of sustainability can also be a double-edged sword depending on how they are addressed by governments and those they govern. What unites all of the papers in this book is their people-centred approach, with Michel Foucaults concept of the 'Care of the Self' as a connecting theme uniting their different research endeavours.
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Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 04 Dec 2024
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Publication City/Country: Netherlands
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789048562077
About
Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft and one of the co-founders of Footprint the journal dedicated to architecture theory. From 2009 to 2015 he was a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden where he co-founded the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA). His publications include The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular (2013) Asian Cities: Colonial to Global (2015) Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2020) and Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2019). Paul Rabé is Academic Coordinator of the Cities Cluster at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden as well as overall coordinator of the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) and the River Cities Network: Engaging with Waterways in the Anthropocene (RCN). Paul is also series editor of Amsterdam University Presss Asian Cities Book Series and is Lead Expert in Urban Land Governance at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) Erasmus University Rotterdam where he is also joint coordinator of the Urban Environment Sustainability and Climate Change academic track. A political scientist by training with a doctoral degree (2009) in policy planning and development from the University of Southern Californias Sol Price School of Public Policy Paul has over 25 years of experience in advisory work capacity development research and teaching on urban policy topics focused on urban land governance and the intersection of land (use) and the management of water and water bodies in urban and peri-urban areas. Nurul Azreen Azlan is an NUS Fellow at the Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore (NUS). Her academic focus leans towards the politics of space where she is predominantly interested in the availability of space for people to participate in public life. As such she is interested in how and why spaces and infrastructure are produced and governed in relation to politics the impact of privatisation of public goods and how historical processes particularly colonisation has shaped the resultant built environment and spatial practices. At NUS she is researching the socio-spatial impact of land reclamation in Malaysia. She is currently on sabbatical leave from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.